HAPPY ENDING | svt ✓

⁵⁰ : observer

dino prided himself on knowing everything that went on in their school. from the locker room conversations to the midnight confessions — he knew them all.

however, a skill he found to be essential and, more importantly, entertaining, was now proving to be a burden with how heavy the air felt, the god sighing as he looked around the room.

there was the jihan duo, joshua carefully helping dokyeom sit up while jeonghan remained purposefully unaware of woozis' unwavering glare. next to him, the god of the underworld held a paper bag for none other than the recipient of his boyfriends' anger.

hoshi stood behind seungkwan and vernon, the oldest of the trio looking down at his nails and trying to mask his obvious distress. unlike his usual self, he hadn't spoken a single word, simply nodding and smiling whenever vernon or seungkwan tried to engage him in small talk.

and although jun, minghao, mingyu and wonwoo seemed pristine and unshaken through everything that had happened recently, dino caught on to the way that jun silently clung onto a small corner of minghaos' sleeve whenever they were together and the way that wonwoos' eyes shifted whenever mingyu gave him the slightest bit of affection.

"how should we celebrate dokyeoms' return?" dino asked, clapping once and breaking the weird silence that had dawned upon them, diverting everyone's attention onto him rather than on whatever feelings they were trying hard to fight.

dokyeom, who still had magic chains floating around him to keep him under control looked at everyone, his eyes welling with tears that dino could tell was mostly due to the boy right before him, joshua being the first and last person dokyeoms' eyes landed on.

"well for starters, what are we going to do about the professors?" seungkwan asked, already fretting about the possible consequences they would face should dokyeom (who was meant to be 'sick') was found back in the dorms.

dokyeom looked away, hands playing on a thread of the sweater joshua had lent him. "i-i'm sorry," he whispered, his voice small. "you all could get into trouble for saving me-"

"well, the school could get into trouble for basically kidnapping a student so it's fair game," minghao stated, the others nodding along.

"who was it who ordered you to be taken away dokyeom?" jeonghan asked, dinos' eyes hovering over his bandaged forehead which was clearly worn out. "and, i'm sorry to ask this now but did you know about your ancestor being narissa?"

dino watched as jeonghan swiftly wiped his forehead, the blonde pretending that he was fixing his hair instead of wiping the beads of red from the wound that he knew had not recovered in the slightest.

"i...i..."

dino stood up properly, sparks of green playing on his fingertips for a brief second. "let's not hound him too much and lighten up a bit. everyone's so tense!" he commented, shaking his hands. "we should all do some light stretching."

"what the fuck is wrong with you?" woozi murmured, dino catching a glimpse of hoshi flinching slightly at his tone of voice.

ignoring him, dino walked up to dokyeom and sat on the bed next to him. "all i'm saying is since now we're all committing some kind of felony against the school, we should all work better together so all this tension isn't good for us." he turned his head, looking at seungcheol who still couldn't find the right timing to give the phone to jeonghan. "right cheol?"

the oldest of the group looked at him and nodded, his expression a mix of confusion and disappointment.

as the next god of mischief, knowing the people surrounding him was a basic skill but knowing how to change them and bring them out of their shells was of a higher order. and, as tiring as he knew it would be, he knew that he had to be the one to forcibly pull them out of their comfort zones.

"let's go on a short trip over the weekend then," dino said, noticing hints of black magic attempting to escape and quickly reinforcing the charms and trapping them inside. "we can bond with each other and also attempt to better control dokyeoms' magic away from the constraints of the school and the professors here."

"where the hell are we going to stay then?"

mingyu raised his hand, the others looking at him. "my family owns a vacation house not too far from the city so if we drive there from here, it'll only be about an hour."

"oh, so you're rich rich," vernon said, receiving a smack on the shoulder from seungkwan.

"okay that settles that! let's leave tomorrow after lessons," dino said. "that okay with you two council heads?"

jeonghan sighed, reluctantly nodding as seungcheol gave them a thumbs up.

as the others left the dorm to pack for their sudden trip, dino stayed behind and strengthened the charms alongside seungcheol. "blondie." dinos' ears perked up at the nickname, distributing his attention between dokyeom and their conversation. "i didn't know what phone you had so-"

"how much was it hades?" silence followed by seungcheol moving to stand next to dino, his hands glowing purple as dokyeom held tightly onto joshuas' hand. "hades-"

"i'm busy blondie and my..." he trailed off, unsure of how to phrase his sentence correctly. "my boyfriend's waiting for me outside so i'd better hurry." a small 'oh' left jeonghans' mouth as he walked back to his own bed and stared at the phone in his hands.

and dino knew he had his work cut out for him.

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vee talks!
the members who had zero screentime here will probably be more prominent the next few chaps (HOPEFULLY)

an update on my carpel tunnel (if youre curious!): im seeing a specialist this coming tuesday and i hope theyre able to give me more solid advice bc its been rly on off the past few days (some days it hurts like hell while others its just a faint sting) but yea thats that

also, i saw nct127's concert in sg so hehe :D

hows everyone doing?
love yall take care <3333